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Matsyapurana 49.14

Matsyapurāṇa 49.14

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Sanskrit

49.14

bharatasya vinaṣṭeṣu tanayeṣu purā kila
putrāṇāṃ mātṛkāt kopāt sumahānsaṃkṣayaḥ kṛtaḥ //

Thus Bharata was born of Śakuntalâ and Duṣyanta. In ancient times, when all the sons of Bharata perished, through a widespread and virulent epidemic, brought on by the wrath of the Goddess Mâtrikâ [? smallpox], then the Marut Devas brought Bharadvâja, the son of Bṛihaspati, and gave him to Bharata.—14-15.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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